Security & Compliance Engineer – GRC & Product Security – Security and IT Team

Technical skills

• Practical experience with ISO 27001 (2022): risk analysis, Statement of Applicability, controls, internal or certification audits
• Knowledge of risk methodologies (ISO 27005, EBIOS RM or similar)
• Understanding of vulnerability management: CVE, CVSS, SBOM, reading scan and pentest reports
• Basic knowledge of identity and access management (SSO, SAML/OIDC, MFA, access reviews)
• Ability to assess the security of a SaaS tool or an application: data flows, permissions, data retention, use of data for AI training
• Jira (workflows, automation) and spreadsheets for control tracking
• Python or Bash scripting for automation
• Clear writing for policies, procedures and answers to customers

Personal skills

• Organized and rigorous: you run many topics in parallel and follow each one to closure
• Autonomous and proactive: you follow up with other teams without waiting to be asked
• Good communicator, able to explain security requirements to non-experts and convince them
• Curious, eager to learn new norms and regulations as they come out
• Willing to share knowledge and guide interns

• ISO 42001, EU AI Act or AI risk management (e.g. ISO 23894)
• EU Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, CISA Secure by Design, UK Cyber Essentials
• GDPR and personal data inventories
• DLP, SIEM, centralized logging and monitoring
• Linux, cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Terraform, Packer, SaltStack
• Experience in a software vendor and with enterprise customers' security audits

• Product security and certifications: prepare the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) technical files per product (compliance matrix, risk assessment, SBOM, vulnerability handling, RACI). Also contribute to CISA Secure by Design commitments and UK Cyber Essentials. Bring security input to the product roadmap, the development teams and the product documentation.
• Data leak prevention: define and tune DLP indicators and alerts (Google Workspace, Salesforce event monitoring) and investigate alerts.
• Infrastructure security: IaaS/PaaS security, monitoring and SIEM alerting, reporting of security incidents, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Automation and tooling: scripts (Python, Bash) and Jira automations that reduce manual work.
• IT operations: account, application and permission management, level 1 and 2 network and security incidents.
• Mentoring: onboard and supervise interns or work-study students on security topics.

Laptop fleet and IT room hardware, SSO integration and SaaS administration, level 3 network management, CI security, and relations with external IT providers. Other team members handle these topics.

Desired profile In general

• Degree in cybersecurity, information systems or equivalent experience
• 2 to 5 years of experience in information security, GRC or security operations
• Based in France

• Fluent French (the team is based in France)
• Professional English: daily work with US teams; all policies, documentation and many customer questionnaires are in English

Our tools GRC platform (OverSecur), Jira and Confluence, OneLogin SSO, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, BambooHR, phishing simulation and awareness platform, internal CVE/SBOM platform, Grafana, vSphere, Terraform, Packer, SaltStack, Python and Bash.

Scality solves organisations' biggest data storage challenges: growth, security, performance, and cost. Designed for end-to-end cyber resilience, only Scality S3 object storage with CORE5 safeguards data at every level of the system, from API to architecture. Its patented MultiScale Architecture enables limitless, independent scalability in all critical dimensions to meet the unpredictable demands of modern workloads. The world's most discerning companies depend on Scality to accelerate high-performance AI initiatives, optimize cloud deployments, and defend their data with confidence.

Recognized as a leader by Gartner, Scality software is reliable, secure, and sustainable.

The job context The team

Our IT & Security team builds, runs and secures Scality's IT infrastructure. It also supports the whole Scality community: employees, contractors, consultants and freelancers. We make sure everyone works in a secure, compliant and up-to-date environment. We also bring security expertise to our products (RING, ARTESCA, ADI) and to our customers.

You will join a team of 4 to 5 people with varied backgrounds (development, security, IT operations, helpdesk) and 2 to 30+ years of experience.

The mission

You will own Scality's information security compliance program and coordinate the team's security operations. You will lead our ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 (AI management system) certifications and manage vulnerability (CVE) follow-up with Engineering.

You will answer customer security requests and audits. You will also help our products meet new regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

The role is about 70% governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and product security, and 30% hands-on security operations.

The job description You will own (Responsible)

• Security operations coordination: be the point of contact for incoming IT & Security requests, prioritize them and dispatch them within the team.
• Vulnerability management: Assess product exposure to CVEs by leveraging internal tools powered by our Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs).. Handle customer security requests (RD tickets) with Engineering and Support until a fix version or a customer answer is delivered. Track scan and pentest reports through remediation.
• ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 programs: maintain the framework, policies and procedures in our GRC tool. Run risk analysis and treatment plans, objectives and indicators, and the Statement of Applicability. Prepare internal and external audits and follow up on nonconformities and improvement opportunities.
• Control management: run the monthly, quarterly and annual controls (account and access reviews across HR system and SSO, application access, offboarding checks), automate them in Jira and keep audit evidence.